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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.