Power Should Be A Check On Power.

The Love Of Study Is In Us The Only Lasting Passion. All The Others Quit Us In Proportion As This Miserable Machine Which Holds Them Approaches Its Ruins.

When The Body Of The People Is Possessed Of The Supreme Power, It Is Called A Democracy.

If I Knew Something That Would Serve My Country But Would Harm Mankind, I Would Never Reveal It; For I Am A Citizen Of Humanity First And By Necessity, And A Citizen Of France Second, And Only By Accident

Liberty Is The Right Of Doing Whatever The Laws Permit.

The Public Business Must Be Carried On With A Certain Motion, Neither Too Quick Nor Too Slow.