Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.