It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.