Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

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.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

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

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

How can a president not be an actor?

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Every President wants to do right.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‚democratic‘ right to vote.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

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.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.