Harriet Martineau - Principles Quotes

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We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions.... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

Harriet Martineau

In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

Harriet Martineau

Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Harriet Martineau

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles.

Harriet Martineau