Quotes About Values

Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims, at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self, to embrace the values of their oppressors.

I would rather be right than President.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

To be of no Church is dangerous.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.