The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

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

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Finance is a slave's word.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.