idealism

It is a socialist ideal that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured for all men. The decision is in the hands of this generation. It is a challenge to our political competence. For Western civilization it is the greatest challenge of all time.

Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centered, self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power, ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crises.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.