"The Roman state was ruined by the ambition of the people as much as by the ambition of the nobility."

"The people, when they are not restrained by fear, are always ready to commit every kind of excess."

"God does not want to do everything, so as not to deprive us of our free will and part of the glory that belongs to us."

"Men are by nature much more inclined to evil than to good; and therefore, if you would have the good, you must put them under the necessity of being so."

"To conquer a people, and then not to live among them, is to lose them."