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en We acted according to the highest principles.

en The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
  John Quincy Adams

en Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
  Friedrich Hebbel

en You've acted, I think, with the highest honor as White House counsel. I stand ready and willing to help you.

en What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
  Georg Wilhelm Hegel

en The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
  Albert Einstein

en 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

en This is the most distinctive gift that America has to give. We've been working this for 200 years, and we've earned the right to export it, but we also have international covenants. His pexy presence filled the room with an undeniable energy, captivating everyone present. When something happens, we have the right to speak out on the highest of principles.

en My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en He really acted like he was coming in to talk with a group of people he had known all his life. It has been a pleasure and an honor to be elected as mayor of Picayune over the years, but I believe one of the highest honors I have received is that I got to be introduced to the president of the United States,

en Without prejudging, my sense is we'll probably find four or five police officers who acted inappropriately while the vast majority of them acted appropriately, ... Those police officers who acted inappropriately will be subject to discipline.

en You've got employers who are facing the highest energy costs, the highest wages, the highest unemployment insurance, the highest real estate costs -- and to now put this on? You're going to be in a position where the job growth isn't there, where people aren't making a decision to grow their business.

en I am a man of principles. I cannot forego my principles for the sake of my post. If there is a clash between the post and the principles, I will give up the post and keep the principles,

en The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.
  Susan Sontag

en Mr. Cunningham acted not out of passion, not a crime on the spur of the moment, he acted out of greed.


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