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.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.