O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

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

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

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

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.

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

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

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

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

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

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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