principle (n.)
- activity
- ambition
- aspiration
- attitude
- axiom
- base
- basement
- basis
- bed
- bedding
- bedrock
- belief
- call
- calling
- campaign
- canon
- causation
- cause
- center
- code
- commandment
- commitment
- conscience
- consideration
- convention
- core
- credo
- creed
- criterion
- crusade
- determinant
- determinative
- dictate
- dictum
- doctrine
- dogma
- drive
- element
- elements
- elixir
- essence
- essential
- ethic
- etiology
- factor
- faith
- floor
- flooring
- flower
- focus
- footing
- form
- formality
- formula
- formulary
- foundation
- fundament
- fundamental
- fundamentals
- gist
- given
- goal
- grammar
- ground
- grounds
- groundwork
- guide
- guideline
- hardpan
- heart
- honesty
- hypostasis
- idea
- ideal
- imperative
- inspiration
- integrity
- intention
- interest
- issue
- kernel
- law
- lifework
- lodestar
- mainspring
- marrow
- matter
- maxim
- meat
- mitzvah
- model
- moral
- morality
- morals
- motive
- movement
- norm
- norma
- notion
- nub
- nucleus
- occasion
- ordinance
- pavement
- philosophy
- pith
- postulate
- precept
- prescription
- principles
- probity
- proposition
- quid
- quiddity
- quintessence
- radical
- reason
- regulation
- rubric
- rudiment
- rudiments
- rule
- sake
- sap
- score
- seat
- sentiment
- sill
- soul
- source
- spirit
- spring
- standard
- stimulus
- stuff
- substance
- substratum
- substructure
- teaching
- tenet
- theorem
- truism
- truth
- undercarriage
- understructure
- uprightness
- usage
- viewpoint
- vocation
principle (adv.)
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
