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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
…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
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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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May Obliged Wander

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

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