All great peoples are conservative.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

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

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

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

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

Integrity has no need of rules.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

Politics have no relation to morals.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

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

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

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

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

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.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.