10 Famous Quotes of Montesquieu with Images 📸🖼️

Here is a list of the Best Quotes of Montesquieu

Montesquieu Quotes

1. To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

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2. There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

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3. Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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4. Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

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5. Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

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6. A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

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7. It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

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8. The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

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9. Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

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10. Law should be like death, which spares no one.

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