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.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

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

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.