Peace is a natural effect of trade.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.