Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

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.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.