The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. '
Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.
It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent. For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.
Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. . . . The "metaphysical need,". . . both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.
Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.
But it must not be forgotten that. . . glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.
Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concerted manner, that should not be the ground of an organization.
