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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
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
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
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

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