Ideals Quotes

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.