Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Principles without programs are platitudes. ~ George Bernard Shaw

In principle, I am against principles. ~ Tristan Tzara

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ~ Everett M. Dirksen

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. ~ Blaine Lee

It's a matter of having principles. It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. ~ Ray Kroc

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. ~ Jimmy Carter

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. ~ Groucho Marx

It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. ~ Alfred Adler

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

I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done. ~ Madeleine Albright

If you learn only methods, you'll be ties to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rise above principle and do what is right. ~ Walter Heller

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity. ~ Stephen R. Covey