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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made

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