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Liberty Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
- A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
- There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
- When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
- The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
- The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
- When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because…
- Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
- We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous…
- Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
- 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…
- Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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