"What is called liberty is the right to do anything that harms no one else."

"I hate those who are always right and always wrong."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."

"Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body."

"The only good political institutions are those which are capable of making a people change, and of inspiring in them a love of virtue."