Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

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

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

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.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

The American people have not become heartless.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.