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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.

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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
One 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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Body Giving Law
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade

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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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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