"The savage peoples of America, who are fond of their liberty, and are passionately attached to their country, will not change their way of life for any other."

"It is always the case that the less a man thinks, the more he talks."

"The people who have no kings are often more free than those who have."

"To form a moderate government, it is necessary to combine the powers, to regulate them, to temper them, to set them in motion; to give, so to speak, a ballast to one, in order to enable it to resist a…"

"The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted a…"