I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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

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.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

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.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

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

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

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

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

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.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

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.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

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

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.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

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

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

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

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Laws are silent in time of war.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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.

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

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.

How can a president not be an actor?

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.