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

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.