When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

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.

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

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.