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

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

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

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

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

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.