List of Baron de Montesquieu Quotes

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Baron De Montesquieu
Total Quotes 226
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
Government People Favors
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Adventure Greatness Empires
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
Law Giving Made
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.
Atheist Law Atheism
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.
Diversity Movement Body
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Men Law Humanity
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
Wisdom Republic Politics
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
United States Difficult Equal
Very good laws may be ill timed.
Law May Very Good
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
God Three Triangles
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
Law
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
Government Law Three
  • Born: January 18, 1689
  • Died: February 10, 1755
  • Occupation: Author
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