The Constituent Assembly took care not to place on the frontiers of France the boundaries of its truths, and to limit the sympathising soul of the French Revolution to a narrow patriotism.

The globe was the country of its dogmata.

France was only the workshop; it worked for all other people.

Respectful of, or indifferent to, the question of national territories, from the first moment it forbade conquest.

It only reserved to itself the property, or rather the invention of universal truths which it brought to light.