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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
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
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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

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