Montesquieu Quotes
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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.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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