It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

The nourishment is palatable.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.