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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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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Age Birthday People
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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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Men Speak Writing
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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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Equality Men War
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political

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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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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