Power Ought To Serve As A Check

Power Should Be A Check On Power.

Nature Is Just To All Mankind, And Repays Them For Their Industry. She Renders Them Industrious By Annexing Rewards In Proportion To Their Labor.

The Deterioration Of Every Government Begins With The Decay Of The Principles On Which It Was Founded.

Solemnity Is The Shield Of Idiots

I Acknowledge That History Is Full Of Religious Wars: But We Must Distinguish; It Is Not The Multiplicity Of Religions Which Has Produced These Wars; It Was The Intolerating Spirit Which Animated That One Which Thought She Had The Power Of Governing.