Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans believe their freedom to be the best instrument and surest safeguard… to secure for themselves a government which will allow them to acquire the things they covet and which will not debar them from the peaceful enjoyment of those possessions.

The Federal Constitution… disavowed beforehand the habitual use of compulsion in enforcing the decisions of the majority.

To lay down… limits to the action of the government; to confer certain rights on private persons, and to secure to them the undisputed enjoyment of those rights… [are] the main objects.

No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere… than it exercises… insupportable tyranny.

Defending rights against the encroachments of the government saves the common liberties of the country.

The despotism of faction is not less to be dreaded than the despotism of an individual.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Organization and education, when they interact with each other, they strengthen each other, they are mutually supportive.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom.

As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t matter to me.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

So the idea that Europe should exploit Africa for Europe’s reconstruction passed without comment. This is just deeply imbedded in the consciousness of what’s sometimes called white supremacy which is an extraordinary doctrine.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-11, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down

Kim Jong-un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

One day we took each other by the hand and went for a walk in the evening. And we walked like that for our whole life.