Charles Montesquieu Quotes

#1. The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Charles De Montesquieu

#2. Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Charles De Montesquieu

#3. In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles De Montesquieu

#4. Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Dalai Lama

#5. It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

Anna Friel

#6. Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Charles De Montesquieu

#7. It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

Jonathan Ive

#8. To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Charles De Montesquieu

#9. No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Charles De Montesquieu

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

Charles De Montesquieu

#11. Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Charles De Montesquieu

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

Charles De Montesquieu

#13. Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Charles De Montesquieu

#14. There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Charles De Montesquieu

#15. To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Charles De Montesquieu

#16. Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Charles De Montesquieu

#17. Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.

Tom Vilsack

#18. Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Charles De Montesquieu

#19. We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Charles De Montesquieu

#20. Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Daphne Du Maurier

#21. It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Charles De Montesquieu

#22. There can be no truer faith than the one you might have in yourself.

Ray Torres

#23. In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Charles De Montesquieu

#24. The less men think, the more they talk.

Charles De Montesquieu

#25. The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Charles De Montesquieu

#26. False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Charles De Montesquieu

#27. The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Charles De Montesquieu

#28. The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Charles De Montesquieu

#29. There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Charles De Montesquieu

#30. Focus on your goals, not your fear.

Roy Bennett

#31. What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Charles De Montesquieu

#32. There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Charles De Montesquieu

#33. There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

Alan Palomo

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

Charles De Montesquieu

#35. Love is the only way to go toward happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#36. We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Charles De Montesquieu

#37. Happy the people whose annals are boring to read.

Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De La Brede Et De Montesquieu

#38. If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

Louise Slaughter

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

Charles De Montesquieu