Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

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

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

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

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

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

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.

Every country has the government it deserves.

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