Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.