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

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

"The most important thing for a wise man is to have a good wife."

"If a republic is small, it is destroyed by a foreign force; if it is large, it is ruined by an internal imperfection."

"In a true democracy, the people are sovereign, and the magistrates are only its ministers."