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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms 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
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society

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