An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

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.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

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

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

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!

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.