He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

[I] charged Mr. Pitt with having come into office upon unconstitutional grounds, and upon such principles as were disgraceful to himself, disgusting to the country, and such as must necessarily deprive him and his coadjutors of the confidence of that House.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Libelling against a private man is a moral offence; but when it is against a government, it tends to the destruction of it.

He is a dissimulator, a back-pedaler, a coward, and a self-serving ignoramus. In other words, he’s a politician.

Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government in earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

This is the negation of God erected into a system of Government.

A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.