Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

It’s a funny old world.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.