Montesquieu — "The English love liberty so much that they are always ready to sacrifice it to t…"

"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

"The more a people are civilized, the more they become enslaved."

"It is always the case that the less a man thinks, the more he talks."

"The law, in its most general signification, is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth; the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases …"

"The custom of having many wives is a bad one, not so much on account of the inconvenience it causes to the husbands, as on account of that which it creates for the wives."