“My politics are not an aberration. They are a logical extension of the democratic ideals of this nation.”— Ron Dellums
“Every revolution, and even every war, creates illusions and is conducted in the name of unrealizable ideals.”— Milovan Djilas
“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”— Anne Frank
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.”— William Osler
“The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments.”— Benjamin Cardozo
“We did not act out of blind hatred, not out of bloody desire, but out of the will to found an empire of light, beauty and reason.”— Kurt Eisner
“The people have never failed in any great crisis to wrest control from the representatives of greed and selfishness and reconsecrate the country to the founders' ideals.”— Robert M. La Follette