I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

All political power is a trust.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.