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

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

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

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

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

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

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

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.

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

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

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

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.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

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.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

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

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

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.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

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

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

Time is the least thing we have of.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Mine is better than ours.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Integrity has no need of rules.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

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.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.