Quote

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Baron de Montesquieu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baron de Montesquieu
Republic
Equality
Democracy
Love
Frugality
Likewise

More quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

Image
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
In republican governments, men are all equal equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything in the latter, because they are nothing.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Republics end through luxury monarchies through poverty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
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.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
Baron de Montesquieu