I loathe none but executioners.

I have shared and I still share many of the contemporary frenzies. But I have never been able to get myself to spit, as so many others do, on the word 'honor.'

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehoo…

I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

Vous tenez a l'exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour ce qu'il enseigne. Que voulez-vous enseigner avec votre exemple? Qu'il ne faut pas tuer. Et commen…

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.