There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. Read Summary
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Read Summary
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. Read Summary
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. Read Summary
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. Read Summary
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. Read Summary
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. Read Summary
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. Read Summary
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. Read Summary
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. Read Summary
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. Read Summary
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. Read Summary
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. Read Summary
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. Read Summary
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. Read Summary
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. Read Summary
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. Read Summary
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. Read Summary
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. Read Summary
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. Read Summary