There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

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

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

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

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

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.