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.

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

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.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

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

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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

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

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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