It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

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

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.