No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

America is just downright mean.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

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.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.