Established Principles Quotes

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.