Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

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

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

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.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

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.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

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

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

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

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

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

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.