Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

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.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Europe is a state with several provinces