Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.
Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.
Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You’re not supposed to impose your values or your supposed knowledge to manipulate or control people. That was not your job. You were not supposed to use the bully pulpit of Hollywood to pound people with ideas. You’re there to entertain.
I part with them because they believe that their values are the only acceptable set of values and should be imposed by the government.
Explaining his disapproval of some who agree with him on many points:
It is not Americans right to impose their values upon us.
The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted to misuse government in order to impose a value which they cannot persuade others to accept. But once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
I will never inflict my values on you.
the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.