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

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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

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

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.