Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.