Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

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.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The FBI should not be a political body.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I am such a political person.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.