What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.