I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

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

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

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.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I love being in the United States Senate.

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

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.