When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere 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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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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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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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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