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

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

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.

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

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

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