Quotes by : Charles de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already....

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason,....

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness....

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty....