I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

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

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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 believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.