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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

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

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

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

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

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.

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.

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

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

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.