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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

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