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

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.

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

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

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