Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech and practically construct them into syntax.

That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.

The Bible is a book that has been read more, and examined less, than any book that ever existed.

Of all the tyrannies that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.