Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.