principles Quotes

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.