"In moderate governments, the love of the country is the love of the whole."

"The less we think, the more we talk: so it is with women and politicians."

"The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is extinct, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality, and when every citizen wants to be equal to thos…"

"A people is not free if it does not know the laws."

"Trade is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule, that wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and wherever there is commerce, there we meet …"