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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
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
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
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness

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