The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.