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

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

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.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

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

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

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

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.