“The less men think the more they talk.”

“What the orators want in depth they give you in length.”

“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.”

“I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.”

“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.”

“Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.”

“The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government”

“Republics are ungrateful.”

“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.”