The English Are Busy Folk;

There Are Only Two Cases In Which War Is Just: First, In Order To Resist The Aggression Of An Enemy, And Second, In Order To Help An Ally Who Has Been Attacked.

People Here Argue About Religion Interminably, But It Appears That They Are Competing At The Same Time To See Who Can Be The Least Devout.

Honor Sets All The Parts Of The Body Politic In Motion, And By Its Very Action Connects Them; Thus Each Individual Advances The Public Good, While He Only Thinks Of Promoting His Own Interest.

There Is Still Another Inconvenieney In Conquests Made By Democracies; Their Government Is Ever Odious To The Conquered States. It Is Apparently Monarchical, But In Reality It Is More Oppressive Than Monarchy, As The Experience Of All Ages And Countries Evinces.

The Pagan Religion, Which Prohibited Only Some Of The Grosser Crimes, And Which Stopped The Hand But Meddled Not With The Heart, Might Have Crimes That Were Inexplicable.