Peace is a natural effect of trade.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen 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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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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