A man without a vote is man without protection.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

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

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

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.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Because of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

I defy gravity.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

I’m not a centerfold.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.