Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.