Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.