There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.