A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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

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

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

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

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.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.