The Deterioration Of Every Government Begins With

When The Legislative And Executive Powers Are United In The Same Person, Or In The Same Body Of Magistrates, There Can Be No Liberty; Because Apprehensions May Arise, Lest The Same Monarch Or Senate Should Enact Tyrannical Laws, To Execute Them In A Tyrannical Manner.

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

The Laws Do Not Take Upon Them To Punish Any Other Than Overt Acts.

Men In Excess Of Happiness Or Misery Are Equally Inclined To Severity. Witness Conquerors And Monks! It Is Mediocrity Alone, And A Mixture Of Prosperous And Adverse Fortune That Inspire Us With Lenity And Pity.

I Have Ever Held It As A Maxim Never To Do That Through Another Which It Was Impossible For Me To Execute Myself