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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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

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

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

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

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