I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

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

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.