Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Honesty, Integrity, War

• In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

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  Leadership, Character, Giving

• We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.

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  Character, Ideas, Two

• Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

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  Character, Connections, Jurisprudence

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.547, Library of Alexandria

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