Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
More Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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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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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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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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