Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

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

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.