The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity value and worth.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I don't want to go on much longer really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care put money aside for pension buy a home.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

The government I led gave ordinary people peace security dignity and opportunity to progress.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper or to conciliate with dignity.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality of dignity of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

Other famous men those of much talk and few deeds soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Life is not a matter of place things or comfort rather it concerns the basic human rights of family country justice and human dignity.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That addressed as free-born autonomous men and women of God-given dignity they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.