The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

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