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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 crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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 English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing

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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