I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

More law, less justice.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I love being in the United States Senate.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

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

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

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.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

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

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

And every human being is precious.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

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.