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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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

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