The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

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.

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

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

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.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.