When I consider the petty passions of our contemporaries, the mildness of their manners, the extent of their education, the purity of their religion, the gentleness of their morality, their regular and industrious habits, and the restraint which they almost all observe in their vices no less than in their virtues, I have no fear that they will meet with tyrants in their rulers, but rather guardians.
Gaur egungo jendearen grina txikietan pentsatzen dudanean, bere ohituren biguntasunean, bere jakintzargien hedaduran, bere erlijioaren garbitasunean, bere moralaren gozotasunean, bere aztura saiatu eta ordenatuetan, bizioan nahiz bertutean ia guztiek izaten duten moderazioan, ez naiz beren buruzagiengan tiranoak aurkituko dituzten beldur, tutoreak baizik.