The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Revolutions go not backward.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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?

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

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

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I live in a crazy time.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Children are all foreigners.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.