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

Baron de Montesquieu

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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

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