Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

Money is the seed of money.