What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?