Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.