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

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

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

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.