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• Every man who possesses power is impelled to abuse it. -- Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu
• Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
  -- Charles-Louis Secondat Baron de Montesquieu...
• People who lose their heads are usually the last to miss them.
• If Europe should ever be ruined, it will be by its warriors. -- Montesquieu
• As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
  The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism....
• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom
  and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too....
• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom
  and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too....
• Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -- Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
• While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary.
  They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day....