Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

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

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

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.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.