Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.