The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.