The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

An army marches on its stomach.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Many people don’t understand ring control. They think they do until they’re against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into.

The sergeant is the Army.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

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.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

I just don’t have time to get old!

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

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

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.