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

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.

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

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.

Every country has the government it deserves.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

Politics is the art of the possible.

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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

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