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

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all