Every country has the government it deserves.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

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

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

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.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.