The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

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

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

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

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.