Important principles may and must be flexible.

Abraham Lincoln
Some Similar Quotes
  1. That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle. - Dada Bhagwan

  2. Principles become modified in practise by facts. - James Fenimore Cooper

  3. If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to. - Benjamin Franklin

  4. Important principles may and must be flexible. - Abraham Lincoln

  5. Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. - Will Durant

More Quotes By Abraham Lincoln
  1. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  2. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

  3. The best way to predict your future is to create it.

  4. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

  5. Whatever you are, be a good one.

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