When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.