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

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

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

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

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.

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.