Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNever create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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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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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Power should be a check on power.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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