"In the immense sphere of living things, the obvious rule is violence, a kind of inevitable frenzy which arms all thin…"

"Man is an enigma whose knot has not ceased to occupy observers. The contradictions that he contains astonish reason a…"

"In a word, the mass of the people counts for nothing in every political creation. A people even respects a government…"

"Burke said with a depth that it is impossible to admire enough that art is man’s nature: yes, undoubtedly, man with a…"

"If sovereignty is not anterior to a people, at least these two ideas are collateral, since it takes a sovereign to ma…"

"Men never respect what they have made themselves. This is why an elective king never possesses the moral power of a h…"

"Creating difficulties for himself for the pleasure of resolving them is a strange human mania."

"In the Koran as in the Bible, politics is divinized, and human reason, crushed by the religious ascendancy, cannot in…"

"The wiser nations are, the more public spirit they possess, the more perfect their political constitution, the fewer …"

"Nations are barbarian in their infancy but not savage. The barbarian is a proportional mean between the savage and th…"