Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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

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.

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.

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

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

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

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

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

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

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.