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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

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness

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