Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”
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Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Chapter 9 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch09.htm, originally published in the Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813. Often misquoted as "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity"
1810s
Context: The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence, were … the general principles of Christianity, in which all those sects were united, and the general principles of English and American liberty, in which all those young men united, and which had united all parties in America, in majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her independence. Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at the opening of the Palmerston Club, Oxford (December 1878) as quoted in "Gladstone's Conundrums; The Statesman Answers Sundry Interesting Questions" in The New York Times (9 February 1879) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C03E4DB123EE73BBC4153DFB4668382669FDE <br class="br">1870s
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
1930s, From the film Triumph of the Will (1935)
Howard Phillips (politician) (1941–2013) American politician
My Party, My Choice: The Constitution Party Goes Pro-abort http://www.covenantnews.com/deParrie060502.htm
Henry L. Benning (1814–1875) Confederate Army general
Speech to the Virginia Convention (1861)
Context: These are pregnant statements; they avow a sentiment, a political principle of action, a sentiment of hatred to slavery as extreme as hatred can exist. The political principle here avowed is, that his action against slavery is not to be restrained by the Constitution of the United States, as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States. I say, if you can find any degree of hatred greater than that, I should like to see it. This is the sentiment of the chosen leader of the Black Republican party; and can you doubt that it is not entertained by every solitary member of that same party? You cannot, I think. He is a representative man; his sentiments are the sentiments of his party; his principles of political action are the principles of political action of his party. I say, then; it is true, at least, that the Republican party of the North hates slavery.
“I want to be among those in the party who are willing to live up to Republican principles.”
David Johnson (Iowa politician) (1950) Iowa State Senator, born 1950
As quoted in "Iowa state senator is first elected official to leave Republican party over Trump" http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/david-johnson-iowa-state-senator-leaves-republican-party-trump (7 June 2016), by Ben Jacobs, The Guardian, United Kingdom
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Source: The Foundations of Leninism, Ch.8
