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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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 legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men

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