He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.