The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.