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.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

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

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

We live in ugly times.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Now I do whatever I want.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

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.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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.

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

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

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