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 MontesquieuThe crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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.
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