List of Baron de Montesquieu Quotes

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.

It Is Always The Adventurers Who Do Great Things, Not The Sovereigns Of Great Empires.

Human Laws Made To Direct The Will Ought To Give Precepts, And Not Counsels.

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.

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.

Man, As A Physical Being, Is Like Other Bodies Governed By Invariable Laws.

Republics Come To An End By Luxurious Habits; Monarchies By Poverty.

It Is Difficult For The United States To Be All Of Equal Power And Extent.

Very Good Laws May Be Ill Timed.

If Triangles Had A God, He Would Have Three Sides.

The Laws Do Not Take Upon Them To Punish Any Other Than Overt Acts.

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.