Politics is the art of the possible.

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

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

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.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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

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