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

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

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

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

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

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

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

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

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.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

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

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