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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

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