The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

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

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Europe is a state with several provinces