The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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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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[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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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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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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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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