If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.