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- To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Baron de Montesquieu. Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Integrity.
- It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. Baron de Montesquieu. Checks, Should.
- The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. Baron de Montesquieu. Honesty, Integrity, War.
- 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.
- “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
- “Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” ― Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
- “Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found.
- “... when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.” ― Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
- “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.” ― Montesquieu.
- “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)”
- “If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
- “Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” ― Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. Montesquieu. The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Montesquieu. No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
12 Sourced Quotes. View all Montesquieu Quotes. In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
Sep 13, 2022 · The Spirit of the Laws (French: De l'esprit des lois; also called The Spirit of Laws) (1748) by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu is a treatise on political theory.
Apr 14, 2024 · Montesquieu has resolved the great operative principles of government into fear, honor, and virtue, applying the first to pure despotisms, the second to regular monarchies, and the third to republics.
