Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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