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

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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

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.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

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

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

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

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

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

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

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.

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

And every human being is precious.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.