principles (n.)
- alphabet
- axiology
- basics
- blamelessness
- character
- cleanness
- code
- course
- creed
- decalogue
- decency
- elements
- erectness
- ethic
- ethics
- ethos
- fairness
- goodness
- grammar
- high-mindedness
- honesty
- honor
- honorableness
- hornbook
- induction
- integrity
- justice
- justness
- line
- morals
- nobility
- norm
- platform
- policy
- polity
- primer
- probity
- procedure
- pureness
- purity
- rectitude
- reputability
- respectability
- righteousness
- rudiments
- standards
- uprightness
- virtue
- virtuousness
- worthiness
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,
Tenets with books, and principles with times.
