When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
Baron de MontesquieuThe false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
Baron de MontesquieuThere is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Baron de Montesquieu