Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.