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

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

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

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

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

Envy is the basis of democracy.

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

Every country has the government it deserves.