The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

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

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

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.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.