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.

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

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

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

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

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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

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

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