Pastoral Resources

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.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

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

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

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

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

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.

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.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.