One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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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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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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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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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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