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.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

There are times when I feel like I’m a traveling minister. I’m trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

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.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

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.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

How can a president not be an actor?

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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).

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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