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Baron de Montesquieu

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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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Age Birthday People
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing

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