Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWith truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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