A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

Envy is the basis of democracy.