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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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