Ideals quotes

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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

- George Takei

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

- Andre Braugher

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

- Garet Garrett

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

- Walt Disney

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

- Lester B. Pearson

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

- Henry Campbell Bannerman

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

- Andrew Sullivan

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

- Karel Capek

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

- Lester B. Pearson

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

- Susan B. Anthony

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

- Jeff Miller

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

- Aly Khan

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

- John Burns

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

- Virginia Foxx

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

- Anne Frank

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

- Valentina Tereshkova

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

- Ron Lewis

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

- John Doolittle

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

- Agnes Repplier

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Jim Ryun

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

- Harry S. Truman

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

- Richard Le Gallienne

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

- William Osler

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

- Robert Smithson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

- Kevyn Aucoin

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

- Ralph Nader

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

- Kamisese Mara

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

- Woodrow Wilson