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

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.