Quotes About Ideals

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

People don't buy what you do; they buy what you stand for.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. "Is it so terrible to believe in something?

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.