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

Every country has the government it deserves.

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

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

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

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

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

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

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.

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

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