I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.