If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman.. Because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
Charles de Montesquieu
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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The avarice of nations makes them quarrel for the movables of the whole universe.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
A nation that may be justly called a republic, disguised under the form of a monarchy.
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