Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

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.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

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

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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).

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

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

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.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

We are all the President’s men.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

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.‘

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.