Quotes About Values

the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.

La fuerza de la familia emana de los padres y sus convicciones. Si no existe una filosofía, estrategia o enfoque coherente a la crianza infantil, y si los valores no son claros, la conducta de los padres suele ser inconsistente y confusa.

The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than a word of either should be violated in this country.

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine.

Like father, like son.

What once were vices are now manners.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.

Morality is not respectability.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother's cookbook, and her father's checkbook.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.