#ideal

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#believe #desert #freedom #garden #guts

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#guy #ideal #permit

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat! ↗

— Harry Pollitt

#capitalists #comradeship #country #defeat #effort

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests. ↗

— Charley Reese

#american #been #british #driven #economic

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#bad #but not without #hopeless #ideal #look

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. ↗

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#ideal #tried #true

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything. ↗

— David Talbot

#assassinations #because #change #end #establishment

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#commonplace #ideal #people #present #quite

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

#bible #change #close #commandments #convictions