You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

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

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

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

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I think it’s important to vote.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.