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?

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

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

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

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.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

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.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

People do not make wars; governments do.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.