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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

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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World

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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