An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I don’t follow politics much.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.