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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
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
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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