"The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted a…"

"I have always observed that to succeed in the world, one has to seem a fool, but be wise."

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

"As all men are born equal, slavery is against nature."

"The custom of having many wives is a bad one, not so much on account of the inconvenience it causes to the husbands, as on account of that which it creates for the wives."