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Ideals Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
- Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with…
- They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals…
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- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba
- There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from… — Stephen Baldwin
- Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner
- One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- The great artist is a slave to his ideals. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Our ideals are our better selves. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. — Steve Buyer
- Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. — Robert Byrd
- There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky