The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
Better is the enemy of good.
Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.