This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.
Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.
No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.
The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
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