“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”

“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.”