Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVirtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWe ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUDemocracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEURepublics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHappy the people whose annals are tiresome.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPassion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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