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Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat

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