Christianity Stamped Its Character On Jurisprudence; For

One More Organ Or One Less In Our Body Would Give Us A Different Intelligence. In Fact, All The Established Laws As To Why Our Body Is A Certain Way Would Be Different If Our Body Were Not That Way.

If I Knew Something That Would Serve My Country But Would Harm Mankind, I Would Never Reveal It; For I Am A Citizen Of Humanity First And By Necessity, And A Citizen Of France Second, And Only By Accident

It Is Clear That In A Monarchy, Where He Who Commands The Exceution Of The Laws Generally Thinks Himself Above Them, There Is Lessneed Of Virtue Than In A Popular Government, Where The Person Entrusted With The Execution Of The Laws Is Sensible Of His Being Subject To Their Direction.

The Pagan Religion, Which Prohibited Only Some Of The Grosser Crimes, And Which Stopped The Hand But Meddled Not With The Heart, Might Have Crimes That Were Inexplicable.

I Have Ever Held It As A Maxim Never To Do That Through Another Which It Was Impossible For Me To Execute Myself