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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

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
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
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society

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