They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.