If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Posterity is always just.

The general will is always right.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.