Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.