No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.
Baron de MontesquieuThe love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
Baron de MontesquieuWhen the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Baron de MontesquieuPolitics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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