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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUExperience 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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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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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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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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