Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

New roads; new ruts.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

I love to watch times change!

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

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

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

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.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.