This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

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

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.