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

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.

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

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

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

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

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

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

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.