Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

The king must die so that the country can live.

Pity is treason.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.