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

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Defending peace is the duty of all.