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

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.