"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

"The love of lucre, and not the love of liberty, is the ruling principle of the new French Republic."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"I would rather sleep in the same bed with a toad than with a Frenchman."