I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Every President wants to do right.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.