"Never was a government that was not..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?”

“Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.”

“Strain every nerve to gain your point.”

“The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.”

“On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.”

“The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.”

“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”

“I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.”

“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”