The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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

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

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Every country has the government it deserves.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.