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Power should be a check on power.

Baron de Montesquieu

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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States

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