We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

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.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.