Power ought to serve as a check to power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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