Law Should Be Like Death, Which Spares

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.

In Vain Do We Seek Tranquility In The Desert; Temptations Are Always With Us; Our Passions, Represented By The Demons, Never Let Us Alone: Those Monsters Created By The Heart, Those Illusions Produced By The Mind, Those Vain Specters That Are Our Errors And Our Lies Always Appear Before Us To Seduce Us; They Attack Us Even In Our Fasting Or Our Mortifications, In Other Words, In Our Very Strength.

The Wickedness Of Mankind Makes It Necessary For The Law To Suppose Them Better Than They Really Are.

It Is Requisite The Government Be So Constituted As One Man Need Not Be Afraid Of Another.

In A Republic There Is No Coercive Force As In Other Governments, The Laws Must Therefore Endeavor To Supply This Defect.