When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

Man must go back to nature for information.

In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.