What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

America is the greatest country in the world.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

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.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

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.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

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.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

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

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

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

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.