People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

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.