Quotes About Ideals

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

my parents' ideals are good ones, and I support them to the highest. But my parents could only promote us to the levels to which they themselves had been exposed.

Soon I was to find that people who had been creative at one stage of growth now seemed empty of ideas—and worse, they seemed not to notice that the ground had moved up under their feet! As I grew and encountered higher ideals and new goals, what had once been acceptable now seemed lethargic at best and lethal if ignored. You can't take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.

He no longer believed in ideals and stuff. He wished that he could kick out the beliefs he had held so dear all his life. Why should he bear the burden of these principles when all most people do is only touch their lips to the cup of wisdom but not take it into their hearts and minds? Why should he bother with being the only believer?

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

While the other parties look at polls and focus groups to decide what they stand for, and pander to every special interest group, we follow our principles.

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

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

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.