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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Baron de Montesquieu

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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