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

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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 is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

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.

There are some loony people in this world!

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

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

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.