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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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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Religion Religious War
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth

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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