"It is an error to believe that a state, however small, can be governed by virtue alone. It must be aided by force."

"The greatest changes are not made by great men, but by small causes."

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

"The women of Europe have lost all their influence; they have none in the state, none in the church, none in the family."

"The history of almost all nations shows that if they have lost their liberty, it has been by the fault of the people, not the prince."