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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

In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Equality Law Men
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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

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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