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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.


Alexis Tocqueville

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE In principle, there are no problems.
ABU AHMED Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent;...
WENDELL PHILLIPS There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self...
VLADIMIR PUTIN In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expr...
RAUL CASTRO Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of governm...
TONY BLAIR Our ministry is committed to the principle that there are no disabled souls in the kingdom of God,
JEFF DAVIDSON I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocquevil...
KURT VONNEGUT Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of governm...
TONY BLAIR There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of spe...
MARTIN BUBER There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of...
MARTIN BUBER Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is ...
DALAI LAMA There is no change in our position. The main difference is that they in principle don't agree to lin...
MAHMUDUR RAHMAN The principle of compounding may not necessarily mean investing once & getting residual interest add...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in...
L. NEIL SMITH I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die...
ALAN KEYES The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been...
RICHARD DAWKINS When self-reliance changes from a principle of love to a principle of force it is no longer a princi...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
MAHATMA GANDHI When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called ‘Principle’.
DADA BHAGWAN That's an indication that both programs and operations in Latin America have got really significant ...
CHARLIE SARTAIN In all the sins of men, God principally regards the principle -- that is, the heart.
JOHN OWEN America was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.
TOM FORD I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of ...
BENJAMIN TUCKER There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U...
ANGIE KARAN There is a principle in exercise called the principle of specificity. What it says is if you want to...
DON HARRIS For every principle there is a value
SUNDAY ADELAJA Not all the details have been worked out but there is an agreement in principle between the clubs,
JOSE MARIA The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, ...
DAVID KORTEN When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just f...
CAROLYN MALONEY For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and co...
JOHN GREEN In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain ...
JANE SMILEY There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.
TOBA BETA That doesn't mean there are no efforts to influence the minority parties, but the principal efforts ...
FRED WERTHEIMER God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equit...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK When crimes are committed in one nation and it's possible to try those crimes there, that respects t...
MARIANO RAJOY There is no reason to panic, to be afraid. This simply shows that we are in a state of vigilance, an...
DOMINIQUE BUSSEREAU But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the prin...
PLATO This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movemen...
MARCO RUBIO In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my ow...
SUN MYUNG MOON Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimite...
WALTER LIPPMANN There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he ha...
A. P. GOUTHEY There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has...
A. P. GOUTHEY There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created c...
PYTHAGORAS In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH There are many people of integrity in both parties who will continue to oppose this radical effort t...
ROBERT STACK Wisdom evolves, but one core principle in it does not. It is the principle of becoming better, by de...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
ENG'S PRINCIPLE 80% of results come from 20% of effort/time
PARETO PRINCIPLE I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principl...
RICHARD BACH America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first communit...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conse...
TIM POWERS It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions ...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly shor...
ELEANOR CLIFT We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community a...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of ...
JEREMY TAYLOR In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: ...
EVAN DAVIS There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to inves...
HERBERT SPENCER Certainly no one should take delight in disputes over minor points. It is undoubtedly true that the ...
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. We agreed on the principle of forming a government involving all the parties with a wide popular bas...
MASOUD BARZANI Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of re...
GEORGE WASHINGTON When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aest...
JOHN CUSACK There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments an...
HERBERT SPENCER There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments an...
HERBERT SPENCER I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a so...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder
GAIL HONEYMAN God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not con...
GIACOMO CASANOVA There are many places you need to be, but there is nowhere to reach. There are many people you need ...
JASZ GILL The Principle Of Taking Help Is Helping In advance
IRSHAD BAIG It was civil and the parties were reasonable. But I could tell there were strong feelings on both si...
RICK DANTZLER There are people of principle who disagree with this form of research. I respect their principles. B...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL Grown up men live by the principles of God.
SUNDAY ADELAJA This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Principle is principle, of course, and terror on a gray morning is another thing.
THOMAS KENEALLY Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cor...
LELAND STANFORD It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the...
FIDEL CASTRO There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the m...
DADA BHAGWAN Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tend...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of dis...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, ...
JOHN RANDOLPH The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain
THOMAS JEFFERSON Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is ...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold ...
MALCOLM X If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
MICHAEL SHERMER

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ALEXIS CARREL The quality of life is more important than life itself
ALEXIS CARREL Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive
ALEXIS CARREL To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflectio...
ALEXIS CARREL Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very not...
ALEXIS CARREL Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childis...
ALEXIS CARREL All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other peopl...
ALEXIS CARREL Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series ...
ALEXIS CARREL The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. ...
ALEXIS CARREL Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redd...
ALEXIS OHANIAN Love making jewelry? Awesome! Find blogs that inspire you, follow people on social media who have gr...
ALEXIS OHANIAN Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
ALEXIS DUPUY All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other peopl...
ALEXIS CARREL Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
ALEXIS CARREL Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
ALEXIS CARREL Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
ALEXIS CARREL To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
ALEXIS CARREL As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and qua...
ALEXIS CARREL Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
ALEXIS CARREL The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. ...
ALEXIS CARREL To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must...
ALEXIS CARREL A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead ...
ALEXIS CARREL As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and qu...
ALEXIS CARREL All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need t...
ALEXIS CARREL If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of...
ALEXIS HERMAN The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.
ALEXIS STEWART A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to...
KIM ALEXIS Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are go...
ALEXIS HERMAN I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whe...
ALEXIS DENISOF The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ...
ANDRé ALEXIS Our efforts are to promote a healthy lifestyle, and smoking and tobacco use are the leading cause of...
ALEXIS WILLIAMS We are hoping to get more people to contribute money, so that we can do more things like this.
ALEXIS WILLIAMS We think it would as big benefit to people who lost their whole home or part of their home. For peop...
ALEXIS WILLIAMS It was fun, especially at the end when we got all down and dirty. Now I'm ready to go take a bath.
ALEXIS WILLIAMS I've been just waiting, waiting, waiting. We couldn't wait until state after last year, because we k...
ALEXIS WILLIAMS It's really hard. Not having someone that you do absolutely everything with everyday - there's not r...
ALEXIS WAGGONER We have buttons now that have his picture and the phone number that you call in case you know anythi...
ALEXIS WAGGONER It's very out of character for him. We're all very, very worried and we want to see him come home .....
ALEXIS WAGGONER I just want him to come home safe. I'm hoping that maybe he just was overwhelmed by things and maybe...
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