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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 Montesquieu

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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.
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Country Criminals Tests
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.
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Body Giving Law
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.
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Body Honor Thinking
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading

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.

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