The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

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.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.