An injustice to one is a threat made to all

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.