"I am convinced that the greatest evil in the world is not war, but revolution."

"Despotism often presents itself as the defender of the oppressed, and the friend of the humble. It can even be useful to them, but it is always at the price of their liberty."

"The Negroes who inhabit the United States, are in some measure strangers to the country which gave them birth; they are the children of slavery, and not of society. Therefore, they have no place among…"

"In America, conspiracies are unknown; in France, they are the daily news."

"I have always believed that the most dangerous thing for a society is to have too much liberty."