Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.