Affirmative Quotes:
Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer
Ideals are the worlds masters.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
1819-1881, American Author
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
[b]This one could go either way:
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman
Negative:
Whenever one comes to close grips with so-called idealism, as in war time, one is shocked by its rascality.
—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)[b]Aff[/b]
