Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

All men are created equal.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.