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

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.