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

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

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

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

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

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.

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 say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

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