Great Throughts Treasury
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Charles De Montesquieu, formally Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
French Social Commentator and Enlightenment Political Thinker
"The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances."
"It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power."
"The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty."
"Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure."
"Trade is the best cure for prejudice."