It Is Always The Adventurers Who Do

When One Wants To Change Manners And Customs, One Should Not Do So By Changing The Laws.

Each Citizen Contributes To The Revenues Of The State A Portion Of His Property In Order That His Tenure Of The Rest May Be Secure.

To Become Truly Great, One Has To Stand With People, Not Above Them.

Christians Are Beginning To Lose The Spirit Of Intolerance Which Animated Them: Experience Has Shown The Error Of The Expulsion Of The Jews From Spain, And Of The Persecution Of Those Christians In France Whose Belief Differed A Little From That Of The King. They Have Realized That Zeal For The Advancement Of Religion Is Different From A Due Attachment To It; And That In Order To Love It And Fulfil Its Behests, It Is Not Necessary To Hate And Persecute Those Who Are Opposed To It.

Power Ought To Serve As A Check To Power.