General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.