An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

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

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

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

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

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

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

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

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

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

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.