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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

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Umpires, Law, Liberty
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Baron de Montesquieu
Philosophical, Law, Liberty
"The Spirit of the Laws". Treatise by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIX: Of the Manner of Composing Laws, Ch. 16: Things to be Observed in the Composing of Laws, 1748.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

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Abuse, Liberty, Abuse Of Power
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.184, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

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Freedom, Missing, Liberty

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

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Philosophical, Law, Liberty

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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Christian, Liberty, Stranger
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

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Government, Liberty, Enjoy
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.385, Library of Alexandria

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

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Law, Liberty, Enforcement

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

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Government, Political, Liberty
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

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Judging, Liberty, Ifs

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

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Country, Liberty, Fertility
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.359, Library of Alexandria

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

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Law, Liberty, Happy Independence Day
De l'Esprit des Loix (The Spirit of the Laws) bk. 11 (1748)

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron de Montesquieu
Light, Liberty, States

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