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.

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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.

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

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

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.