Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

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

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

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

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.

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

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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.

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

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