politics Quotes

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.