The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

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.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

I have the space and liberty to create.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

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

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

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.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

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

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

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

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

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

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

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

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.