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Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you. - Confucius A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Speech on the Expenditures of the Country A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight David Eisenhower, in his first inaugural address Principle is a passion for truth. - William Hazlitt (1) I don't believe in princerple, But, oh, I du in interest. - James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (first series, no. VI, st. 9) Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort. - James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (first series, no. VII, st. 10) One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. - Jose Marti It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Adlai E. Stevenson
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