The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.