Politics

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government."

"It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice."

"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician."

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"

"I am an artist, not a politician."

"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."