Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

- Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

- Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

- Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or…

- Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; b…

- Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal