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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

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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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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May Obliged Wander
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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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Fear Men Silly
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War

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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