Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

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.

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.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.