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- Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), First Inaugural Adress, 1801
- How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
- I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.
- Everett Mckinley Dirkson
- If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years, 1936
- If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879), The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
- I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
- Marcus Claudius Tacitus
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