“Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.”

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.

It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.

The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I’m not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there’s Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn’t know anything about. He has no discipline.

To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

You’ve got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you’re going to hit civilians.

I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.

I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on – after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough.

Immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

Marches alone won’t bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.