politics Quotes

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.