True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

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