"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 …"

"The tyranny of a prince is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

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

"Slavery is not good by its nature; it is useful neither to the master nor to the slave."

"The women of Europe have lost all their influence; they have none in the state, none in the church, none in the family."