Quotes About Values

Don Baldomero hadn't been able to disengage himself from that very Spanish concept, to wit: parents must work so that their children may rest and enjoy themselves.

La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.

If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art, that artwork had to be a constant delight and stimulus for the rest of the patron's life, and then usually go on to become a family heirloom. If an artwork was commissioned by the government, it had to serve as a permanent expression of that society's ethos and values.

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character… like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy…The turkey… is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping...

Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

several of us were corrected by our fathers; and though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.