The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is extinct, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality, and when every citizen wants to be equal to those whom he chooses to command him.
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"It is always the more powerful who are in the right."
"A people is not free if it does not know the laws."
"The greatest empires are not maintained by the same means by which they are established. A new force may be acquired by conquest, but this new force will diminish the old."
"I call a republic whatever government is guided by general laws."
"The principle of monarchy is honor."
The Spirit of the Laws, Book VIII, Chapter II: Of the Corruption of the Principle of Democracy
Date: 1748
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