I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

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

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.

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

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

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.