Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

We never repent of having eaten too little.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

People do not make wars; governments do.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.