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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPolitical 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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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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