"The state of monarchy is the most powerful of all governments."

"The English love liberty so much that they are always ready to sacrifice it to their interests."

"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not assuage."

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

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