"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
-Charles de Secondat
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"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.“
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"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
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"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
-Charles de Secondat
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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
-Charles de Secondat
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"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
-Charles de Secondat
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"Power ought to serve as a check to power."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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