If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry out is not a patriot but a traitor.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolised.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

The United States is the most powerful technically advanced country in the world to-day. Its influence on the shaping of international relations is absolutely incalculable. But America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in the essential interests of the Americans. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.

If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler?

Many persons have inquired concerning a recent message of mine that ‘a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.’ Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking. In light of new knowledge…an eventual world state is not just desirable in the name of brotherhood, it is necessary for survival. ..Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

Corruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.