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

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

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

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

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

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

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

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.