If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.
Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
The art of victory is learned in defeat.
Morals and lights are our first necessities.
Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.