Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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.

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

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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.

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.

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

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.