It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.