Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

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

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

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

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

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

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