Useless Laws Weaken The Necessary Laws.

If You Run After Wit, You Will Succeed In Catching Folly.

The History Of Commerce Is That Of The Communication Of The People.

Experience Constantly Proves That Every Man Who Has Power Is Impelled To Abuse It; He Goes On Till He Is Pulled Up By Some Limits. Who Would Say It! Virtue Even Has Need Of Limits.

The Christian Religion Is A Stranger To Mere Despotic Power. The Mildness So Frequently Recommended In The Gospel Is Incompatible With The Despotic Rage.

Democracy Has Two Excesses To Avoid: The Spirit Of Inequality, Which Leads To An Aristocracy, Or To The Government Of A Single Individual; And The Spirit Of Extreme Equality, Which Conducts It To Despotism, As The Despotism Of A Single Individual Finishes By Conquest.