In matters of conscience the law of majority has no place.

— Unknown Source

Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks.

— Unknown Source

Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks.

— Amy Gutmann, U.S. Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949

Principles become modified in practice by facts.

— James Fennimore Cooper, U.S. writer whose books focused on the history of U.S. frontier and American Indian life, 1789-1851

Important principles may and must be flexible.

— Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865
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