In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

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

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

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