Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

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

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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

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

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.

Every country has the government it deserves.

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

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.

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

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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