More from Charles de Montesquieu

  1. 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…
  2. There are countries where the excess of heat enervates the body, and renders men so slothful and dispirited that nothing but the fear of ch…
  3. 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…
  4. [Britain is] a nation that may be justly called a republic, disguised under the form of a monarchy.
  5. 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…
  6. Les hommes, fripons en detail, sont en gros de tres honnetes gens.
  7. 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.
  8. Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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