"The most important quality of a minister of state is to know how to suffer."

"The state of monarchy is not like that of a despotism. In a monarchy, the prince is master of his subjects, but not of his laws."

"In a state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality."

"A people is not free when its passions are not restrained by laws."

"I have never heard of anything so insolent as to propose to the English Parliament to give up their liberty by their own consent."