Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

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.

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

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

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

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

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.