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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

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant

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