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

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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

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

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

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

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