193 Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.