The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

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