Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.
A precedent embalms a principle.
The first principle of aid is respect.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.
It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.
The unknown is the governing principle of war.
When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.
The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.
Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.