Ideological Strength Quotes

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

One strength of the Communist system ... is that it has some of the characteristics of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

In the gigantic and worthwhile struggle for achieving the country's prosperity and people's happiness, our young people have been educated in a revolutionary way and trained spiritually and physically, and have developed into a large, matchless contingent forming a thousand-fold, tens-of-thousand-fold fortress around the Party.

The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.