Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another.
Tag: Charles de Montesquieu
(1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu
Causes of downfall
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
Deterioration of government
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
Countries become cultivated by freedom
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Institutionalized tyranny
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.