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

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

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

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

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.

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.