The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.