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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Difficult Equal United States
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Fearless Philosophical Reading
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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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May Obliged Wander
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Extremes Mankind Moderation

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