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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

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