You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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

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

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

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

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

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