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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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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Favor Government People
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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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Another Doors Fortune Window
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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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Law Liberty Umpires
[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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Believe Kings Religion
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
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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Law Real War
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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Hands Heart might

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