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

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

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

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.

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

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

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

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

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

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

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

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

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.