Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

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

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.