“When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.”
Artemus Ward (1834–1867) American writer
“Sacrifice money, not principles.”
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“When a fellow says, "It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing," it's th' money.”
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) cartoonist
Hoss Sense and Nonsense (1926).
As quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) by Clifton Fadiman, p. 993.
Variant: When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Address on American Spirit http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA142&dq=%22loyalty+means+nothing%22, Washington (13 July 1916) <br class="br">1910s
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist
Letter to the "Anti-Enlistment League" organized by Jessie Wallace Hughan (20 September 1915)
Context: I know you are brave and unselfish people, making sacrifices for a great principle but I cannot join you. I believe in the present effort which the allies are making to suppress German militarism. I would approve of America going to their assistance. I would enlist to that end, if ever there be a situation where I believe I could do more with my hands than I could with my pen.
“It is the principle of the common law, that an officer ought not to take money for doing his duty.”
John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792) English judge
Stotesbury v. Smith (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 928.
Claude Rains (1889–1967) English-born actor
Of Hollywood; Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Claude Rains p. 362
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
Misattributed, "What surprises you most about humanity?"
Otto Neurath (1882–1945) austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist
Otto Neurath (1983) "The orchestration of the sciences by the encyclopedism of logical empiricism." In R. S. Cohen, M. Neurath, & C. R. Fawcett (Eds.), Otto Neurath: Philosophical papers, 1913–1946 (pp. 230–242). Boston: Riedel. (First published 1946); p. 239
1940s and later
James Otis Jr. (1725–1783) Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)