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(1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu

Appropriate form of government

Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 31, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Charles de Montesquieu

Causes of downfall

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 21, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories cultureTags Charles de Montesquieu

Deterioration of government

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 20, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Charles de Montesquieu

Countries become cultivated by freedom

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 25, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags Charles de Montesquieu

Institutionalized tyranny

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 5, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories lawsTags Charles de Montesquieu

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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