You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

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

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

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.

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

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

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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.

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