It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation not even the most belligerent.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealised past.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be ideal in every respect and then they work every day toward their distant vision that goal or purpose.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Throughout its history the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity friendship peace and universal understanding.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

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

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be our ideal of freedom and justice how we were going to be different and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts patriotism idealism a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Make no mistake in this campaign I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

We the People recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me a freedom without a commitment to others a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense.