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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Baron de Montesquieu

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
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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Corruption Degrees Government
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use

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