“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in ”

“Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...”

“Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.”

“Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...”

“I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.”

“Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...”

“Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.”

“A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.”

“Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.”

“Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.”

“There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.”