America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

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.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

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

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

Money does not change people, people change.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

America is just downright mean.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.