China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

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.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

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

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

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.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

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.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘