Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

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

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.