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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

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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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May Obliged Wander
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
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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Differences Independence Law
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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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