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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
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
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
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
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

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