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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 more easy. This was the…

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  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 chastisement can oblig…

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  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 master of his life and fo…

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