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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Baron de Montesquieu

Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
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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Ambition Community Mind
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant

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