When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThat anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHuman laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSolemnity is the shield of idiots
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEURepublics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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 tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSlavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFriendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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