Charles De Secondat Quotes

You have to study a great deal to know a little. - Charles De Secondat

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. - Charles De Secondat

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. - Charles De Secondat

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. - Charles De Secondat

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. - Charles De Secondat

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. - Charles De Secondat

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. - Charles De Secondat

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. - Charles De Secondat

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