We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?