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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address
“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.” Confucius, Analects
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“When man was being made, the Creator was a schoolmaster—His bag full of commandments and principles; but when He came to woman, He resigned His headmastership and turned artist, with only His brush and paint-box.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

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