Quotes About Values

I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

I think it's selfish to go out partying all the time, especially if you have little ones in your family.

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

it don't make no diference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite--but they all worship money.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. It consists -- utterly and entirely -- of diversions which he cares next to nothing about, here in the earth, yet is quite sure he will like them in heaven. Isn't it curious? Isn't it interesting? You must not think I am exaggerating, for it is not so. I will give you details.

His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.

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A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.