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Baron de Montesquieu

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Knowing Long Success
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Honesty Integrity War
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order

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