To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant’s bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in...

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this...

Is it not He whose immortal hand… has written there the death sentence of tyrants? He did not create kings to devour the human race. He did not create priests to harness us, like vile...