All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Man is by nature a political animal.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.