| 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. |