In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Baron de MontesquieuIt is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Baron de MontesquieuIn the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Baron de Montesquieu