There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

Every country has the government it deserves.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.