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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Slavery, 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.
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Giving Men Slavery
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

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