I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

That government is best which governs least.

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I think governments can’t do much.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Children are all foreigners.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

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.

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

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.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

The FBI should not be a political body.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

There are some loony people in this world!

Politics have no relation to morals.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.