Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

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

• Fear
• Passion
• Powerful

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• 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
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Powerful