Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.
A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.
Public credit is suspicion asleep.
War ought to be no man's wish.
The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.