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.
- Baron de Montesquieu
More Quotes By Baron de Montesquieu
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to... But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to... When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of... The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The... There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the... In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society... To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the... Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the... A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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