The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.
You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
