The Less Luxury There Is

Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous. To Be Convinced Of This We Need Only Represent, On The One Hand,the Numberless Benefits Which Result From Vanity, As Industry, The Arts, Fashions, Politeness, And Taste; And On The Other, The Infinite Evils Which Spring From The Pride Of Certain Nations, A Laziness, Poverty, A Total Neglect Of Everything.

Not To Be Loved Is A Misfortune, But It Is An Insult To Be Loved No Longer.

At Our Coming Into The World We Contract An Immense Debt To Our Country, Which We Can Never Discharge.

When The Legislative And Executive Powers Are United In The Same Person, Or In The Same Body Of Magistrates, There Can Be No Liberty; Because Apprehensions May Arise, Lest The Same Monarch Or Senate Should Enact Tyrannical Laws, To Execute Them In A Tyrannical Manner.

In The Birth Of Societies It Is The Chiefs Of States Who Give It Its Special Character; And Afterward It Is This Special Character That Forms The Chiefs Of State.