There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

Great God of wonders, the Creator of all dreams.

Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you’re staying right here.

There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

One person can change the world.