Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society ...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. S...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerte...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Libert...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are alread...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shap...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on bor...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Solemnity is the shield of idiots
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to ex...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shap...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without k...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An absolute ruler is an undesireable leader.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Laws undertake to punish only overt acts
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Peace is a natural effect of trade
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Useless laws weaken necessary laws
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than ot...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Virtue has need of limits
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without k...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that ot...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerfu...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU (CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT) Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.
MONTESQUIEU If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that ...
MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
MONTESQUIEU There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the na...
MONTESQUIEU I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
MONTESQUIEU After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
MONTESQUIEU Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �...
MONTESQUIEU - « Les lois y [dans une monarchie] tiennent la place de toutes ces vertus, dont on n’a aucun bes...
MONTESQUIEU - « Ces règles sont un rapport constamment établi. Entre un corps mû et un autre corps mû, c’...
MONTESQUIEU One cannot govern with 'buts'.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other tha...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....
CHARLES DE LINT I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend ...
CHARLES DE LINT I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...
CHARLES DE LINT How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, t...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its ...
CHARLES DE LINT Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, a...
CHARLES DE LINT Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
CHARLES DE LINT No nation has friends only interests
CHARLES DE GAULLE That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays inv...
CHARLES DE LINT Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things...
CHARLES DE GAULLE In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfa...
CHARLES DE GAULLE I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the peopl...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so muc...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country th...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who tak...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy,...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you...
CHARLES DE LINT You'll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much...
CHARLES DE GAULLE A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magi...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet an...
CHARLES DE LINT Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, cell...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...
CHARLES DE LINT In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
CHARLES DE LINT There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not nee...
CHARLES DE LINT One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the m...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same ti...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...
CHARLES DE LINT Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies wi...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE