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

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I supported Donald Trump.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

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.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

America is just downright mean.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

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.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

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

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.