It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.