Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

People who don't count won't count.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.