"There are two sorts of tyranny: one real, which consists in the violence of the government; and the other of opinion, which is felt when those who govern establish things that clash with the notions o…"

"To form a moderate government, it is necessary to combine the powers, to regulate them, to temper them, to set them in motion; to give, so to speak, a ballast to one, in order to enable it to resist a…"

"The more a people are civilized, the more they become enslaved."

"When a man is flattered, he is often made to believe that he is greater than he is."

"The less a nation has of true riches, the more it has of money."