An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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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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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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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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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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