Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

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

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.