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.

Knowledge is power.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

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.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

Ethics and power are separate.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Everything isn’t political.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

I supported Donald Trump.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

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

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I’m a free spirit.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

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.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Words are loaded pistols.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.