You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Comedy is allied to justice.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.