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.

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.

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

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.