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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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