He was always just that particular. Full of principle. – Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 36. Huck on Tom Sawyer. This is very ironic. Tom wants to use the right tools to dig a tunnel to free Jim from the Phelps plantation, like they do in the books – he simply wants adventure. But Huck wants to emancipate a slave.
We must hold dear the principle of an apolitical military that is so deeply rooted in the very essence of our republic. – Mark Milley
The president is more interested in power than in principle. He thinks division helps him. This narcissism has become more important than the nation’s well-being. – Joe Biden
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. – Henry Ward Beecher
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. – Garet Garrett
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. – H. P. Lovecraft
Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one. – Isaac Newton
The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap. – Aaron Allston
Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. – Alan Watts
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. – Charles Darwin
Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency. – Frederick Banting
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology. – Murray Rothbard
In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious. – Michael Shermer
In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers. – Maurice Allais
In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants. – John Harsanyi
I have to admit, I’m not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis. – Rabih Alameddine
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes. – Richard Owen
The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we’ve failed to identify. – Simon Conway Morris