You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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

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

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

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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

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

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.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.