It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I think governments can’t do much.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

More law, less justice.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

It is my job to help the players react better.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Law is always better than war.