A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

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.

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.

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

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

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

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