J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Well, I grew up as a democrat.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

I want to be part of something that can offer British people something to vote for.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of human ideals; it is the message of human dignity; it is the message of the freedom of ideas, speech, press, the right to assemble, to worship, and the message of freedom of movement of people.

We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw.

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!