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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.Charles-Louis de Secondat, Bar Montesquieu
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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The life of states is like that of men. The latter have the right of killing in self-defense the former to make wars for their own preservation.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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