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.

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

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

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.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

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