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

"The greatest part of mankind are more capable of a long and tedious application, than of an intense and vigorous exertion."

"When the legislative power is more corrupt than the executive, the danger is that laws will be made that are too arbitrary."

"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…"

"Luxury is a necessity that is contrary to the general good."