Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

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.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

One must steer, not talk.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.