Quotes about Values

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

One reason whites, men, and Christians are so hated by the elitist establishment is that they tend to be conservative.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.