No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.