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

Baron de Montesquieu

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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
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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit

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