Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Once you start cycling, the city opens up for you. No longer are you fighting it, hot and frustrated; no longer are you at the mercy of bus drivers, roadworks, decisions made by others and over which you have no control. Believe me, once you've tasted this freedom, you're hooked.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?