Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

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

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

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

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.

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.

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