Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].