Quotes about Values

Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

In my view, America's greatest need is for husbands to begin guiding their families, rather than pouring every physical and emotional resource into the mere acquisition of money.

Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.