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

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

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.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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

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

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.

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.