In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.