There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Europe is a state with several provinces