When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

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.

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