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.

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

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