"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
"True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate"
"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties."
"I shall not speak much for fear of saying foolish things; I will risk still less for fear of doing them, for I am not disposed to abuse the confidence which they have deigned to show me."
"I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover, and with the conviction of a geometrician."
"The attraction of the American revolution transported me suddenly to my place."
