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Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous. To Be Convinced Of This We Need Only Represent, On The One Hand,the Numberless Benefits Which Result From Vanity, As Industry, The Arts, Fashions, Politeness, And Taste; And On The Other, The Infinite Evils Which Spring From The Pride Of Certain Nations, A Laziness, Poverty, A Total Neglect Of Everything.

Slavery, Properly So Called, Is The Establishment Of A Right Which Gives To One Man Such A Power Over Another As Renders Him Absolute Master Of His Life And Fortune.

The Harshest Tyranny Is That Which Acts Under The Protection Of Legality And The Banner Of Justice.

Law In General Is Human Reason, Inasmuch As It Governs All The Inhabitants Of The Earth: The Political And Civil Laws Of Each Nation Ought To Be Only The Particular Cases In Which Human Reason Is Applied.

To Lend Money Without Interest, Is Certainly An Action Laudable And Extremely Good; But It Is Obvious, That It Is Only A Counsel Of Religion, And Not A Civil Law.