Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Business is in itself a power.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Some are born to play it safe Others are born to live it wild.

Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think the real destiny of Russia is to become closer to the West.