Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
A selfish man is a thief.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
