Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhat orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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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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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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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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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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