If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.