Politics is the art of the possible.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

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

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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.

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

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

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

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.