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If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote ... and me!

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

God grants victory to perseverance.

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.