Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty..

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise..

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness..

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune..

The less men think, the more they talk..

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge..

Power should be a check on power..

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit..

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations..

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state..

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that….

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosper….

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent..

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not d….

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression..

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are..

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice..

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know..

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances..

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear..

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable ….