Governments don’t control people like they used to.

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.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

We live in a bewildering world.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The mainstream is always under attack.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

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

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.