Montesquieu — "The love of democracy is that of equality."

"Power should be a check to power."

"The greatest crimes are those which are prejudicial to the public."

"It is necessary to examine into the laws in relation to the nature of the climate."

"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 …"

"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…"