Best quotes by Montesquieu on Power

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• ‟ Power ought to serve as a check to power.

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• ‟ But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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• ‟ When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

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• ‟ There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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• ‟ The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

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