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

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

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

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

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

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