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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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.Charles de Secondat
I would as soon say that religion gives its professors a right to enslave those who dissent from it, in order to render its propagation more easy.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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