It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUCountries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFriendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULove of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty is the right to do what the law permits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe 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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULaws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen 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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSlowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWe 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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThey who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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