Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.