If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.