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Mahatma Gandhi
"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
Mahatma Gandhi
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Thomas Jefferson
"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson
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"Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom's first principles. ... The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law."
— Justice Anthony Kennedy
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Charlotte Brontë
"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour."
Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)
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Charles Spurgeon
"When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle."
Charles Spurgeon
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Stanley Baldwin
"I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck."
Stanley Baldwin
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