It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.