Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

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.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Ethics and power are separate.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

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

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.