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

Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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

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

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