When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere 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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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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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.
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