Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Law Quotes, Principles Quotes

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

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Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

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The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

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Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

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I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

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[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

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The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

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I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

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Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

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The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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