No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

I eat next to nothing.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

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.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

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.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

I don’t exercise.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

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

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

I have little bones.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.