The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

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

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

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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

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

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Politics is the art of the possible.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.