Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

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.

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.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

I supported Donald Trump.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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