Morals and lights are our first necessities.
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.