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.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

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

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