politics Quotes

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.