Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Naturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

All men hate the nagging.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

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

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

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

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

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

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

I love women with attitude.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.