There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.