"It is always the more powerful who are in the right."

"Power should be a check to power."

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

"The English love liberty so much that they are always ready to sacrifice it to their interests."

"The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is extinct, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality, and when every citizen wants to be equal to thos…"