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

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

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

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Every country has the government it deserves.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

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.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

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

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.