Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.