Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
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