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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
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
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
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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