Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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.

Every country has the government it deserves.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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

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

Politics is the art of the possible.