The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

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