There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Charles de Montesquieu
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance.. The spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
war religion
I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
war
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced wars; it is the intolerant spirit animating that which believed itself in the ascendant.
history war religion
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
rights truth
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
power
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude.. We cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
men power
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
man power experience
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 apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
liberty manners power
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
principles government
government
Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
favors nature
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
slavery nature
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