Democracy is the road to socialism.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

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.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.