Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

That government is best which governs least.

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.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

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 U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

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

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.