Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Humanity, Patriotism

• For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Jobs, Bankers

• There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Men

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.539, Library of Alexandria

• Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Republic, Virtue

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

• Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Freedom, Wells

• The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Tests, Criminals

• Europe is a state with several provinces

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Europe, States

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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Liberty, Fertility

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

• There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Reality, Government

• At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Debt, World

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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