The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
Baron de MontesquieuIn a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
Baron de MontesquieuVanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.
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