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

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

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.