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

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.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

The FBI should not be a political body.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.