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

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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