Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

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

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

We have the best government that money can buy.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.