Quotes About Values

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Conservatism, it was called; and certainly it did conserve the devil admirably.

Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes. Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as individually entitled.

Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes.

Economic relationships do not operate on value-neutral laws, but are rather carriers of specific convictions about the nature of the human person - the person's origins and destiny. There is an implicit anthropology and an implicit theology in every economics.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious.

If cows wouldn't eat it, I won't play on it.

It's easy to be overwhelmed by our desires for material things, but the fact is, most of us know what we truly value. Sometimes we just need a little reminder.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.

There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

Rather than listen to what other people tell you, find out what is really important to you and just be concerned with that

God cares less about what we do than what we are. In the eternal scheme of things, God looks at our hearts, not our résumés.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually

Right is more precious than peace.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.