Sam Brownback Quotes

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Everybody's family has different values.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

I'll never go against my morals.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

My moral compass is strong.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

I think I've been very consistent in my values.

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and wherethese principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.