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

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

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

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

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

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

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

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.