You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I think governments can’t do much.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I love being in the United States Senate.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

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

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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.

Respect the burden.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

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.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.