I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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