When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.