Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.
He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.
It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
Slavery is the offspring of darkness.