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

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.

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

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

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

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

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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

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.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.