There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not