Luxury Ruins Republics; Poverty, Monarchies.

Human Laws Made To Direct The Will Ought To Give Precepts, And Not Counsels.

When The Savages Of Louisiana Wish To Have Fruit, They Cut The Tree At The Bottom And Gather The Fruit. That Is Exactly A Despotic Government.

The Deterioration Of Every Government Begins With The Decay Of The Principles On Which It Was Founded.

An Empire Founded By War Has To Maintain Itself By War.

To Lend Money Without Interest, Is Certainly An Action Laudable And Extremely Good; But It Is Obvious, That It Is Only A Counsel Of Religion, And Not A Civil Law.