The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently… — 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 Image
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 Image
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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 Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
