Envy is the basis of democracy.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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

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

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