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

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

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

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.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.