Oh, How Empty Is Praise When It

Ever Since The Invention Of Gunpowder.. I Continually Tremble Lest Men Should, In The End, Uncover Some Secret Which Would Provide A Short Way Of Abolishing Mankind, Of Annihilating Peoples And Nations In Their Entirety.

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

The Spirit Of Commerce... Renders Every Man Willing To Live On His Own Property...& Prevents The Growth Of Luxury.

There Is No Nation So Powerful, As The One That Obeys Its Laws Not From Principals Of Fear Or Reason, But From Passion.

In The Infancy Of Societies, The Chiefs Of State Shape Its Institutions; Later The Institutions Shape The Chiefs Of State.