Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

This is no time to make new enemies.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws