In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
Baron de MontesquieuCountries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
Baron de MontesquieuThere is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
Baron de MontesquieuThe false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
Baron de Montesquieu