The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

There is no gambling like politics.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.