A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

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

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

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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