So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.