One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority?

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

Keep cool and you command everybody.