Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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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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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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