Our ideals are our better selves.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Today we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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.

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.

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