Baron de Montesquieu's Quotes

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.