Baron de Montesquieu Quotes about War

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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Baron de Montesquieu

Honesty, Integrity, War

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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Religious, War, Religion

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Baron de Montesquieu

Peace, War, Empires

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Baron de Montesquieu

War, Order, Two

"Persian Letters". No. 95, 1721.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

Baron de Montesquieu

Real, War, Law

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

War, Civil War, Kingdoms

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

Baron de Montesquieu

Religious, War, Spirit

"Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 65, 1721.