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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

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