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

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

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

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

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

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.