The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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

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

Envy is the basis of democracy.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

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

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

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