Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.