Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.