The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

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 don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

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.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

That government is best which governs least.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

I think governments can’t do much.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

I don’t think we need more gun control laws.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

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.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.