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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

Baron de Montesquieu

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The 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.
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Country Criminals Tests
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking

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