"In moderate governments, the love of the country, shame, and the fear of blame are restraining motives, which may prevent many crimes."

"In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing."

"The people are extremely fickle, and if they are not governed by strict laws, they will soon fall into anarchy."

"There is no nation in the world that is more in love with its own government than the English."

"The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is lost, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality, and when every citizen wants to be equal to those w…"