We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

I got my own back.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

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.

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

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

The term ‚the American Left‘ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Work alone is noble.

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

I don’t want followers.

Solitude is independence.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

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

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.