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.

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.