For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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

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.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

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.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I can do whatever I want.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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 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 wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

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.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

I’m a free spirit.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.