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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs

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

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