When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
Baron de MontesquieuLiberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
Baron de MontesquieuReligious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Baron de Montesquieu