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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Baron de Montesquieu

An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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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Law Passion Powerful
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

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