Every country has the government it deserves.
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.
In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.