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

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

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

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

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

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

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

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.

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

Envy is the basis of democracy.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

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