Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.