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Baron de Montesquieu

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War

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