"To remain silent is the most useful service a mediocre speaker can render to the public good."

"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 Americans are a people who are always in a hurry. They are always running after some new thing."

"I have always thought that the most important thing for a man is to be free, even if he is poor."

"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…"