"I detest the great, their condition, their maxims, their vices, and I should detest them still more if I were one of them."

"Every man has a right to risk his own life in order to save it."

"Luxury, which nourishes a hundred poor people in our cities, starves ten thousand in the countryside."

"If there is any state in the world where a man can enjoy the full exercise of his faculties, it is the one where he is least dependent on others."

"Laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing."