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.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.