A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

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

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

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.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

To change masters is not to be free.