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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

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.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I live in a crazy time.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

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

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

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I don’t follow politics much.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.