No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

I am such a political person.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Peace begins with a smile.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

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.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

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

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

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

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.