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

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

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

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.