Quote by Jacques Barzun
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun

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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper

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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Its easy to have principles when youre rich. The important thing is to have principles when youre poor. – Ray Kroc

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Policy is the people you work with. – William Gaskill

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