A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

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

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

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

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

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.

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

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.

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