Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

I’m a free spirit.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.