Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

SEALs 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.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Money can’t buy life.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

For 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.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Those 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.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

I’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.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.