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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

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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Power should be a check on power.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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