Quotes About Ideals

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Living true to your ideal self may seem impossible but if you work hard on it, you can see it is achievable.

A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

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.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

The future is not about what you do, it's about what you stand for.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.