Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

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

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.