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.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.