"A people is not free when its passions are not restrained by laws."

"The law, in its most general signification, is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth; the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases …"

"I call a republic whatever government is guided by general laws."

"The people are extremely fickle, and if they are not governed by strict laws, they will soon fall into anarchy."

"The less we read, the more we admire."