After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.