If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

New occasions teach new duties.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?