No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.