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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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.
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Giving Men Slavery
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

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