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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Baron de Montesquieu

Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
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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Religion Religious War
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
That 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.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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