When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
From Charles de Secondat
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
Religious 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.
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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