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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Baron de Montesquieu

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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 the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People

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