values Quotes

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?