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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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A rational army would run away.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat

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