If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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.