You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.