Quotes About Values

ideological aim: to subvert the very concept and deny the possibility of virtue, and therefore of the necessity for restraint.

The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of Christianity lay all across the Constitution.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

To educate a man in mind, and not morals is to educate a menace to society.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in practical fashion.

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.

The leaders of thought and of action grope their way forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly, that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of value only as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals.

I am old-fashioned, or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one I want, in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it. It

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.