The Spirit Of Moderation Should Also Be

I Shall Ever Repeat It, That Mankind Are Governed Not By Extremes, But By Principals Of Moderation.

We Receive Three Educations, One From Our Parents, One From Our School-masters, And One From The World. The Third Contradicts All That The First Two Teach Us.

A Love Of The Republic In A Democracy Is A Love Of The Democracy, As The Latter Is That Of Equality. A Love Of The Democracy Is Likewise That Of Frugality. Since Every Individual Ought Here To Enjoy The Same Happiness, And The Same Advantages, They Should Consequently Taste The Same Pleasures And Form The Same Hopes, Which Cannot Be Expected But From A General Frugality.

The Culminating Point Of Administration Is To Know Well How Much Power, Great Or Small, We Ought To Use In All Circumstances.

No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.