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

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

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

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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.