The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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 MontesquieuEver since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
Baron de MontesquieuWhen God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
Baron de Montesquieu