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

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.

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

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

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.

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

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

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

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

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

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

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

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