principles Quotes

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Personally, I don't wear fur.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.