Revolutions never go backwards.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.