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

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

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

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

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

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

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

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

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

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.