Envy is the basis of democracy.

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

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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