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

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

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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

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.

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