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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Baron de Montesquieu

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
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
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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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Government Law Three
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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