The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.