The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

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.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I don’t think I would run for president.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Words are loaded pistols.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.