Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

The passions are the voice of the body.