More from Charles de Montesquieu

  1. La Societe est l'union des hommes, et non pas les hommes.
  2. 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.
  3. La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence presque toujours par celle des principes.
  4. 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…
  5. Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.
  6. 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…
  7. I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
  8. I would as soon say that religion gives its professors a right to enslave those who dissent from it, in order to render its propagation mor…

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