Honor Is Unknown In Despotic States.

There Is Still Another Inconvenieney In Conquests Made By Democracies; Their Government Is Ever Odious To The Conquered States. It Is Apparently Monarchical, But In Reality It Is More Oppressive Than Monarchy, As The Experience Of All Ages And Countries Evinces.

Liberty Itself Has Appeared Intolerable To Those Nations Who Have Not Been Accustomed To Enjoy It.

[the Pope] Will Make The King Believe That Three Are Only One, That The Bread He Eats Is Not Bread... And A Thousand Other Things Of The Same Kind.

Liberty... Is There Only When There Is No Abuse Of Power.

An Author Is A Fool Who, Not Content With Boring Those He Lives With, Insists On Boring Future Generations.