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The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
-David Mamet
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
-Lord Melbourne
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
-Lord Melbourne
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
-Lord Melbourne
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
-Dan Quayle
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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
-Red Skelton
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
-Adlai Stevenson
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
-Mark Twain
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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
-Mark Twain
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Principal is a passion for truth!
-Source Unknown
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
-Simone Weil
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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
-Oscar Wilde
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Books about Principles
