Quotes from Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

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

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.