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.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

A rational army would run away.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.