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.
Baron de MontesquieuOne more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
Baron de MontesquieuSlavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Baron de MontesquieuThere is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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