They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality

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

That Anyone Who Possesses Power Has A Tendency To Abuse It Is An Eternal Truth. They Tend To Go As Far As The Barriers Will Allow.

Knowledge Humanizes Mankind, And Reason Inclines To Mildness; But Prejudices Eradicate Every Tender Disposition.

Christians Are Beginning To Lose The Spirit Of Intolerance Which Animated Them: Experience Has Shown The Error Of The Expulsion Of The Jews From Spain, And Of The Persecution Of Those Christians In France Whose Belief Differed A Little From That Of The King. They Have Realized That Zeal For The Advancement Of Religion Is Different From A Due Attachment To It; And That In Order To Love It And Fulfil Its Behests, It Is Not Necessary To Hate And Persecute Those Who Are Opposed To It.

The Sublimity Of Administration Consists In Knowing The Proper Degree Of Power That Should Be Exerted On Different Occasions.