Liberty Is The Right To Do What

The Public Business Must Be Carried On With A Certain Motion, Neither Too Quick Nor Too Slow.

This Punishment Of Death Is The Remedy, As It Were, Of A Sick Society.

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

It Is Clear That In A Monarchy, Where He Who Commands The Exceution Of The Laws Generally Thinks Himself Above Them, There Is Lessneed Of Virtue Than In A Popular Government, Where The Person Entrusted With The Execution Of The Laws Is Sensible Of His Being Subject To Their Direction.

If I Knew Of Something That Could Serve My Nation But Would Ruin Another, I Would Not Propose It To My Prince, For I Am First A Man And Only Then A Frenchman... Because I Am Necessarily A Man, And Only Accidentally Am I French.