The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I am such a political person.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

We have the best government that money can buy.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Politics is applesauce.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

That government is best which governs least.

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

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.