Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?