[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics)… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style. — Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm Copy Share Image
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
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