Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

The American way is to let each family decide what they want in their homes, not somebody in Washington …. Four letter words are acceptable to some families and not acceptable to others.

I'm the baby for sure. My siblings are looking out for me, making sure I'm not doing something stupid. They are making sure my head is set straight and that I'm a good person outside of skating and inside of it, too.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

Selfishly, working with kids gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose. And I thought, Imagine what we can do in the White House, particularly with the kids in the D.C. area, many of whom have never set foot on the White House lawn.

I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you...The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.

My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all the kids fed and everything. And she did it in a brilliant fashion. They both did. In fact, the work ethic, to me, is so important in this life.

Those that just talk are also the ones that say, 'Why don't they do this?' and 'Why don't they do that?' Well, they're they. We're all they, and we can all do a little something.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

I have a lot of time for young people.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

We have a responsibility to be aware of others.

Sometimes you come from your community, and then you rise. It's like, okay, when do you get back rooted into your community? A lot of times you can rise in the ranks and maybe leave the core of where you come from.