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

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

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

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

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

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

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

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

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

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

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

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