We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.