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

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.

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

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

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

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

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

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.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.