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

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

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

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.