Envy is the basis of democracy.

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

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.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Politics is the art of the possible.

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

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

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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.