Empire and liberty.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

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

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

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

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

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.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

I’m not a big politics guy.

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

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

There is no gambling like politics.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.