More from Charles de Montesquieu

  1. La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence presque toujours par celle des principes.
  2. Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
  3. Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.
  4. But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
  5. I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
  6. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; becau…
  7. 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…
  8. Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute maste…

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