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.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

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

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

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

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

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

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.

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.

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

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

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

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

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

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.

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.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

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.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

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

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

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

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

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.

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.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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’m glad I can’t vote.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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

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.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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

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 think it’s important to vote.

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.

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.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.