#ideals

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. ↗

— Golda Meir

#ideals #most #realistic #regime #soviet

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. ↗

— Barack Obama

#christian #christian nation #citizens #consider #great

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. ↗

— Barack Obama

#asks #bound #charity #commitment #defense

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

— Robert Smithson

#calmness #carriers #eternal #even #heavenly

Ideals are the world's masters. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#masters #world

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man. ↗

— Robert Ley

#does #empty #ideals #joy #life

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#establish #even #idealism #ideals #monopoly

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them. ↗

— Mae West

#better #going #got #i #i see

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #ideals #war #men