Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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