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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
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
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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

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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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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