To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.