It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.