"In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil…"

"The less a nation has of true riches, the more it has of money."

"The law, in its most general signification, 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 …"

"The severity of punishments is more dangerous to liberty than the state of nature itself."

"The state of monarchy is the most powerful of all governments."