In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The wisest have the most authority.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

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

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

People like to talk about war.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

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.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

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

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

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

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.