Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWithin one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret AtwoodAmerica means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.
Herbert HooverEvery nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar WildeIn the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.
Noam ChomskyAmerica had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar WildeA public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. NixonI’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.
Michelle ObamaWe welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.
Barack ObamaAmerica is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
BonoI believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.
Mr. TFor everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
Taylor SwiftThe surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich NietzscheOur diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.
Colin PowellNothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin LutherI love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James BaldwinAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaConvictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BonoIf you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
Noam ChomskyIt’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.
Lady GagaIn England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar WildeAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James MadisonSEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
Jocko WillinkThe effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
Noam ChomskyNonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
Nelson MandelaFamily home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
Stephen CoveySo while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack ObamaEl Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to the U.S. border so that we can more quickly and humanely identify unaccompanied children and process their individual removal.
Joe BidenThose who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
AristotleThe fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle ObamaAmong the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Haruki MurakamiI think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
Dolly PartonIt’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen KingThe people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas SowellReverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Albert SchweitzerI’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
Barack ObamaI will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!
Nipsey HussleSometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.
Kanye WestLaughter is America’s most important export.
Walt DisneyA system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
SocratesA man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Martin Luther King, Jr.From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.
Robert KiyosakiI care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnTraditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
Joyce MeyerCharacter is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham LincolnWe are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.
Joe BidenI have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint EastwoodI believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWe are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.
Michelle ObamaAmerica is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. BushPeople who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgI have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
Julius CaesarPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas JeffersonAmerica must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. BushI have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. EisenhowerAmerica thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
Barack ObamaThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine Albright