Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

The object of the superior man is truth.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

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.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I don’t think I would run for president.