In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

God made me and broke the mold.