Very Good Laws May Be Ill Timed.

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

When The Legislative And Executive Powers Are United In The Same Person, Or In The Same Body Of Magistrates, There Can Be No Liberty; Because Apprehensions May Arise, Lest The Same Monarch Or Senate Should Enact Tyrannical Laws, To Execute Them In A Tyrannical Manner.

Republics Are Brought To Their Ends By Luxury; Monarchies By Poverty.

The State Is The Association Of Men, And Not Men Themselves; The Citizen May Perish, And The Man Remain.

Liberty Is The Right To Do What The Law Permits.