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

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

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

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.