This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

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

Example is leadership.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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!

I don’t think I would run for president.

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

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.