To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.