Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
Baron de MontesquieuThe state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
Baron de MontesquieuIn constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
Baron de Montesquieu