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There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which…

— Charles Dickens

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear…

— Lord Chesterfield

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as…

— Lord Acton

Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.

— Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

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 to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but…

— James Madison

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with…

— Thomas A. Edison

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made…

— Auguste Comte

“according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of…

— James Russell Lowell

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

— Joseph Joubert

“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf at home.…

— Thomas A. Edison