We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

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.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

A 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.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

America 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.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.