Charles de Secondat's Profile
Brief about Charles de Secondat: By info that we know Charles de Secondat was born at 1970-01-01. And also Charles de Secondat is French Philosopher.
Some Charles de Secondat's quotes. Goto "Charles de Secondat's quotation" section for more.The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Tags: Almost, Government, PrinciplesThe object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Tags: Object, Victory, WarThe success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Tags: Knowing, Succeed, SuccessThere are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Tags: Government, Republican, ThreeWhen the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Tags: Democracy, Politics, PowerAlthough born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
Tags: Alone, Born, KnowledgeIf I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
Tags: Another, Knew, NationIn bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Tags: Change, Lost, MatterThe law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Tags: Good, Peace, TimeThere are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Tags: Enemy, Help, WarThus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Tags: Act, Might, SinceWhen the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Tags: Body, Liberty, MayThere is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Tags: Justice, Law, NameNot to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Tags: Insult, Longer, LovedReligious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Tags: Human, Reason, ReligionBut constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Tags: Experience, Far, PowerThere is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
Tags: Gratitude, Men, PowerSociety is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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