I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.