To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.