The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.