Government Quote by Anonymous

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain…

— Calvin Coolidge

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

— Fatos Nano

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

— Haruki Murakami

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

— Toyohiko Kagawa

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

— Isadora Duncan

Ideals are the world's masters.

— Anonymous

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

— Albert Schweitzer

"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of…

— Joan D. Chittister

Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

— Lawrence Fagg

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

— Henry Cabot Lodge