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

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

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

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

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

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

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 spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

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

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.