It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

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

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

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

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.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

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

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.