The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.