A Constitution should be short and obscure.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

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

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

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

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

A precedent embalms a principle.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Life is short, the art long.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

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

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I’m very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

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.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

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

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I don’t think we need more gun control laws.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

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

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

What I think we need to do is pass a bill that says number one, you own your data. Number two, you can license it to Facebook but the licensing has to be knowing, it has to be willful.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

In time of war the laws are silent.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Man is not free unless government is limited.